“Don’t be limited by feeling like you can only be a coder, you can be an artist, a doctor, an attorney, a teacher, etc… in the tech sector!”

Anyone who works in a technology-related field knows that the landscape tends to evolve at a dizzying pace.

Since its founding in Upper St. Clair eight years ago, Accion Labs Inc. has pursued the mission of staying on top of the evolution and, in turn, helping customers throughout the world incorporate the latest technologies into their business plans.

CEOs of four of the region’s fastest-growing companies shared lessons learned in college that prepared them for their roles today. Here's what Kinesh Doshi, founder and CEO of Accion Labs, had to say:

Kinesh Doshi, founder and CEO of Accion Labs, prides himself on his ability to turn a 60 slide PowerPoint presentation into three slides. When dealing with customers, partners or employees, he gets right to the point. He never gets on a plane for business if a phone call will do.

When considering the gender imbalance in technology-related professions, consider the words of a British man who goes by “Replicant Fish.”

“Men will always have a bigger, more natural connection with tech than women will. It’s not a sense of men keeping women out. Men are more naturally into these things,” he states amid the recurring misogyny of one of his YouTube posts, while alleging that women prefer the confines of, say, the cosmetics industry.

Wednesday, June 27th was officially the day that Accion Labs said hello to their new office spaces in the DDI Plaza of Bridgeville, PA. “It was a three-year process but finally we pulled the trigger and agreed on a location, and we settled on the DDI Plaza,” stated Operations Manager, Jennifer Wells.

WHY IT'S A COOL OFFICE: Formerly located in Upper St. Clair, Accion Labs recently moved to its 9,000-square-foot office, located off Interstate 79 in Collier Township, allowing easy access from many parts of the city. The office's modern feel is a fit for Accion’s vision of emerging technologies, driven by its focus on technological innovation and digital transformation.

Business leaders speaking at an April 18 Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Bethel Park said the Pittsburgh region will need to attract and retain talent thise next decade in order to avoid a potential workforce shortfall.

Accion Labs, a Pittsburgh-based technology firm working with technology companies and IT groups, said due to its expansion to Markham, Ontario, it will hire 10 to 12 employees in Pittsburgh over the next 2 years.

As a typical Western Pennsylvania fourth-grader, Brayden Wells enjoys football.

“I like baseball more, though,” he’ll admit.

That is OK with former Pittsburgh Steelers safety Will Allen, as no matter what Brayden’s sports preference, he is helping to spread the word about the foundation that bears the retired athlete’s name.

Ashutosh Bijoor, CTO of Accion Labs often explains software development as something more tangible, like building a sprawling housing development. Now picture a scenario in which all the building materials — the bricks, the drywall, the gutters and shingles — become available for use not just by construction professionals but by virtually anyone, at any time, anywhere.

Accion Labs and TORI Global have launched a new strategic partnership – Digital. By Design – combining our respective strengths into an end-to- end digital solution. The suite of six Digital offerings, ranging from digital strategy to digital governance, from data analytics to UX design, and from microservices to cloud mobilization – is specifically designed to address real-world business challenges.

Ashutosh Bijoor - Chief Technology Officer at Pittsburgh-based Accion Labs (http://accionlabs.com/) - is not your everyday software pro. A compulsive outdoor sports practitioner and a passionate history buff, he owes his clarity of thought and purpose to his affinity for Mathematics and ability in terms of visual articulation.

Founded only three years ago by Kinesh Doshi, Tony Kernan and Sandesh Sukumaran, the company’s investors are aiming to grow the information services technology firm into a $100 million company by the end of 2015.

We are proud to announce that Accion Labs has been selected as one of the 20 most promising data analytics providers by CIO Review Magazine.The biggest challenge organizations face today is not just the technical competency, but a fundamental shift in how they view their data, its structure, the usage scenarios and redefining the roles and responsibilities of the IT and user organizations.